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Chinese investors monitor stock prices at a brokerage house in Beijing. Photograph: Mark Schiefelbein/AP
China’s Shanghai Composite Index plunged more than 6% in its biggest drop in three weeks, amid fears that the recent change in exchange rate policy may accelerate flows of capital out of China.The Shanghai Composite Index fell 6.2% to 3,748.16, its largest fall since an 8.5% dive […]

China sure has its micro-managing hands full these days.Just hours after the PBOC announced a modestly “revalued” fixing in the CNY, which curiously led to weaker trading in the onshore Yuan for most of the day before a forceful last minute intervention by the central bank pushed it back down to 6.39…… it was the local stock market spinning plate […]

REUTERS/Fred ProuserSteve Wynn.Steve Wynn wouldn’t have done that.China’s stock market has been on an epic roller-coaster ride this year.After a 150% jump in a few months, stocks quickly tanked more than 30%.In its desperate efforts to stop the crash, China’s government stepped in and suspended all initial public offerings, limited the number of trades investors could execute in a day, […]

REUTERS/StringerA trainer picks up Chinese Yuan banknotes from the open mouth of a crocodile during a performance at a zoo in Wenling, Zhejiang province March 2, 2015.China’s markets are going crazy again and Deutsche Bank’s Jim Reid is taking the big step of admitting he doesn’t get it.Stock markets in China went into free fall in June, pausing only briefly […]

Jimmy ChengWhile China’s stock market suffered one of the largest declines on record yesterday, we ain’t seen nothing yet, according to the man who predicted the low point for the Shanghai Composite index in 2013.Tom DeMark, founder Arizona-based DeMark Analytics, believes there’s significant carnage still to come.He’s predicting China’s stock market will decline by an additional 14% over the next […]

Now Is The Time – Fear Rises As Financial Markets All Over The Planet Start To Crash
By Michael Snyder, on July 27th, 2015Can you feel the panic in the air? CNN Money’s Fear & Greed Index measures the amount of fear in the financial world on a scale from 0 to 100. The closer it is to zero, the […]

China said on Monday it was prepared to buy shares to stabilize the stock market and avert “systemic risks,” after major indices plunged more than 8 per cent in the biggest one-day fall since 2007.The securities regulator also said market authorities would deal severely with anyone engaged in the “malicious shorting of stocks,” in Beijing’s latest attempt to stave off […]

It’s days like Monday that reassure Tony Hann he was right to avoid stocks in mainland China.Boom! The bottom just dropped out of China’s unprecedented efforts to prop up its marketChina’s stocks tumbled the most in eight years Monday morning as investors lost faith in government measures to support the market and the IMF warned Beijing to butt out.Continue reading.The […]

REUTERS/Bobby YipDespite bouncing back today, Chinese stock markets have been in crisis and banks are warning that if efforts to put a floor under the market don’t stick then the turmoil could get as bad as the US crash in 2008 and the debt crisis in Europe in 2012.The main Shanghai Composite collapsed over 30% in the last month, despite repeated attempts by the government to […]